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Comment on Senior / Principle required for full time by Sophie

Sophie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:35:10 +0000

The hours don’t add up!

Comment on Carbon Fiber Combs by admin

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:55:09 +0000

eBay is the best place to get carbon fiber combs.

Comment on Position Available – Head Hairdresser/Manager Whitsundays by Jean-Philippe Armanet

Jean-Philippe Armanet — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:38:08 +0000

Bonjour, I am a fully qualified hairdresser from France and have also run my own very successful salon for the past 8 years. Are you interested in sponsoring me, as I am currently at stage 2 of my immigration to Australia , but that could take another 2 or more years. My family all live in Australia

Comment on Open a Hair Salon Part Two by Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:16:13 +0000

How much space would you recommend looking for, for a start up salon that has about 6-8 chairs in it?

Comment on Carbon Fiber Combs by neale

neale — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:58:09 +0000

where the hell can i buy a carbon fiber comb!!!!!!!

Comment on edward beale by edward beale

edward beale — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:02:51 +0000

Hi Marcus
I never ever poached anybody to work with me!!!!!!!!!!!!!
edward beale

Comment on Robert Lobetta and Ozdare Competition by admin

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:26:16 +0000

The contest winner has been randomly selected and contacted. We will confirm the winner, once s/he confirms they want the ticket to Robert Lobetta. If for whatever reason they are unable to attend we’ll pick a new winner.
Thanks to all the new subscribers, we hope you’re enjoying Style Street.

Comment on Writers Wanted by Mario Doria

Mario Doria — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:15:37 +0000

Just found the site. Has some really cool stuff. Some of the articles are really good, and some are i think misleading.
EG:, Opening a salon for $5000, has disaster written all over it.
It’s a saturated market and only the strong thrive the rest close down.

Before opening a salon, there should be a reason of why it’s going to work, other than you being the best hairstylist in the world. Unfortunately thats not enough to succeed in the business world.
If these articles are for helping and guiding young hairdressers about to embark on as business venture, they should include,

Preperation, surveying the area,
population, average income, average age group in suburb, and see if this fits the kind of salon your dreaming of opening.
Checking out existing salons, to see if there is a place for you to create something new and fresh.
Marketing/ advertising plan
Salon look and feel, the kind of space you wish to create.
Banking, Accounting, and legal Issues
Suppliers
Branding, Image.

If these things along with many others are not addressed in the preperation stage, you will be one of the 75% of salons that fail and eventually go broke.

What our industry doeasn’t need is more salons going broke and bastardizing it along the way, with $5 haircuts and $25 colors.
and $5000 salons
We can control our industrie’s future and build it to how it once was many moons ago. Hairdressers were one of the most highly respected trades, and were viewed as artists.
We need to get back to that place where we charge what we are worth per hour like all the other trades. And to do that we need beautiful places to work from that inspire clients and give them an experience worth paying for and returning back again and again.
Opening a $5000 salon i don’t think so. Lets fill our young stylists minds with sound advice they can use and not false hopes that will see them as the 30th salon in a suburb doing 1 client a day because of a special they saw on the window.

We have a serious problem in Australia with too many bad hairdressers, in bad salons doing bad work under priced. Which means they can’t employ quality stylists and pay them what their worth, and so they pay the minimum and get the stylists that are at the bottom end who don’t care about their ability or our industry.
As Doctor Phill says ” We can’t change what we don’t acknowledge”

I would love to see a governing body for our industry that could have a set standard before one could be issued with a licence to open a salon.

Other countries have stylists earning double what our stylists are earning. We need to address these issues and have new salons that open become a part of our solution not the problem. $5000 salons i don’t thin so.

Mario Doria
Director. Maestro Franchising Group
Maestro Hair Salons

Comment on Robert Lobetta and Ozdare Competition by admin

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:04:45 +0000

Quick update on the contest.
We’ll be using http://www.randomizer.org/ to pick a random winner for the competition. Everyone who is signed up to eNews & Updates will be entered into the draw.
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Comment on Robert Lobetta and Ozdare Competition by Vote on this article at blogengage.com

Vote on this article at blogengage.com — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:04:55 +0000

Robert Lobetta and Ozdare Competition…

Style Street is giving away a ticket to see Robert Lobetta.
To enter simply subscribe to Style Street before Thursday 3rd September and be in the draw to win one free ticket. (Melbourne only).
The winner will be picked at random and announced on Friday…